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Just hours after the Australian man 'Craig Steven Wright' outed as the possible real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Australian Police raided his home in Sydney.

Over 10 police officers raided Wright's home in the Sydney suburbs on Wednesday afternoon. They forcefully opened the door, and 'started searching the cupboards and surfaces of the garage.'

However, the Sydney police raid at Wright's home is not associated with the claims of his being involved in creating Bitcoins, rather related to the Australian Taxation Office investigation, the Guardian reported.

Wright was recently identified as the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, based on leaked transcripts of legal interviews and a number of emails and blog posts.

However, neither Dr. Wright nor anyone else has publicly confirmed the real identity of the founder of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto.

In a statement, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers said the raids weren't at all associated with the recent Bitcoin claims on Wright.

"The AFP can confirm it has conducted search warrants to assist the Australian Taxation Office at a residence in Gordon and a business premises in Ryde, Sydney," the police said. "This matter is unrelated to recent media reporting regarding the digital currency bitcoin."

Wright appears to be persuading the Australian Taxation Office to tax his Bitcoin holdings as a currency and not as an asset.

Nakamoto reportedly has some 1.1 Million Bitcoins to his name in a trust fund that amounts to roughly 455 Million in US Dollars — the same amount that Wright is believed to own.

The recent investigations hinted at a direct link between Wright and Nakamoto, but the evidence could be fake in whole or part and there is a possibility that Wright could also be the wrong man.

Maybe the Australian Taxation Office authorities will have the better luck in figuring out the mystery — The Face behind Bitcoin.

Yes, Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the Bitcoin digital cryptocurrency has possibly been identified as an Australian entrepreneur, according to investigations independently done by Wired and Gizmodo.

His name is Craig Steven Wright…

...at least based on some convincing evidence shown by both the publications.

Bitcoin is a revolutionary virtual currency developed around Blockchain, a complicated cryptographic protocol and a global computers network that oversees and verifies which Bitcoins have been spent by whom.

The identity of the ones spending Bitcoins are extremely difficult to trace because of its anonymous nature, therefore, are very popular among criminals.

Satoshi Nakamoto is not only the father of an entire economy worth Billions of dollars, but also a multi-multi-millionaire himself.

Some Evidence that... Satoshi Nakamoto = Craig Steven Wright

The 44-year-old Australian academic – described as a "climate-change denier, a serial entrepreneur and an eccentric" – fits the profile of Bitcoin's creator in nearly every detail.

Wired claimed that Wright knew about Bitcoin before it was ever made public in 2009. We can say this based on the following evidence:

Wright apparently published some blog posts sharing and seeking expertise on developing crypto currencies just before the launch of Bitcoin.

His PGP keys for email were previously linked to someone identifying themselves as being Satoshi Nakamoto.

A blog post announcing the launch of Bitcoin, which was then deleted and replaced with a short note saying "the best way to hide is right in the open."

The Documents that were either "Leaked" or "Hacked" by an anonymous source close to Wright include e-mails dating back to 2008 — before the creation of Bitcoin — in which Wright discusses his work on Bitcoin.

Wright has 1.1 Million Bitcoins Worth $400 Million

As evidence, the report cites a Legal Contract that Mr. Wright and his American business partner, Dave Kleiman (computer forensics expert) who died in 2013, were involved in the development of the Bitcoin digital currency.

According to the contract, Wright and Kleiman allegedly have access to 1.1 Million Bitcoins. This sum, worth about $400 Million today, is the same amount that Nakamoto is believed to own.

Last year, Newsweek created headlines worldwide, claiming to "outed" the creator of Bitcoin 'Satoshi' as being a 64-year-old Japanese-American, who lives near Los Angeles.

However, Wright's name has never appeared on the list of the possible creators of Bitcoin. So this time as well, the whole story could be nothing but just a big Hoax and the unverified leaked documents could also be faked in whole or in part.

A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies.

The researchers at the security firm, Trustwave have uncovered the Bitcoin Heist that was accomplished by the computers infected with a new class of malware that has been dubbed as ‘Pony’, a very powerful type of Spying Keylogger Malware with very dangerous features that was last time found two months ago.

Pony, for those who have not yet heard about it, is a bot controller much like any other, with the capability to capture all kinds of confidential information and access passwords. It contains a control panel, user management, logging features, a database to manage all the data and, of course, the statistics. It can see the passwords and login credentials of infected users when they access applications and Internet sites.

The security firm has found that the botnet has infected over 700,000 accounts in four months of the period, between September 2013 and mid-January 2014, and allowed criminals to control those accounts.

“Not only did this Pony botnet steal credentials for approximately 700,000 accounts, it’s also more advanced and collected approximately $220,000 worth, at the time of writing, of virtual currencies such as BitCoin (BTC), LiteCoin (LTC), FeatherCoin (FTC) and 27 others,” reads the report.

In December, the same piece of malware infected a number of popular websites and services such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., by stealing a couple of million passwords, that provide them access to all those accounts.

“This instance of Pony compromised 85 wallets, a fairly low number compared to the number of compromised credentials. Despite the small number of wallets compromised, this is one of the larger caches of BitCoin wallets stolen from end-users.”

The Malware was in the wild when the virtual currency, such as Bitcoin value touched the sky, which was developed by cryptographic experts as a way to move money at a lower cost than traditional financial systems.

"Bitcoins are stored in virtual wallets, which are essentially pairs of private and public keys," the Trustwave researchers said, adding that “whoever has those keys can take the currency, and stealing Bitcoins and exchanging them for another currency, even a regulated one such as US dollars, is much easier than stealing money from a bank."

They said that cyber thieves with Bitcoins can use any number of trading websites, to get real cash while maintaining anonymity.

NOT just BITCOINS

Here, if you think that the botnet went after only the Bitcoin, then you are wrong. Currently, the Bitcoin value is swinging between $300 and $500. So, instead of sticking to only Bitcoin wallets, the Pony botnet looks for a list of virtual currencies including Anoncoin, BBQcoin, Bytecoin, Craftcoin, Devcoin, Digitalcoin, Fastcoin, Feathercoin, Florincoin, Franko, Freicoin, GoldCoin, I0coin, Infinitecoin, Ixcoin, Junkcoin, Litecoin, Luckycoin, Mincoin, Namecoin, NovaCoin, Phoenixcoin, PPCoin, Primecoin, Quarkcoin, Tagcoin, Terracoin, Worldcoin, Yacoin and Zetacoin.

If you are wondering that the attack was being shut down by some security companies, then you are guessing wrong, because the attackers themselves “closed shop” during January.

There are so many ways to move money anonymously on the Internet and US Justice Department has declared war on currencies widely used by cyber criminals.

Just after the Law Enforcement in 17 countries shuts down 'Liberty Reserve', a $6 billion digital money laundering operation, now the criminals is switching to another online currency called "Perfect Money".

Perfect Money, another private digital currency that has emerged to meet the demand of Criminals and hackers, those buying and selling kit anonymously and being used by people selling stolen credit cards in Internet hacker forums recently.

Fraudsters are rapidly migrating to Perfect Money and it allows users to transfer money anonymously by purchasing and exchanging the proprietary currency for dollars, euros and gold.

These virtual currencies are often linked to bitcoin because it has also been used by criminals. It was thought Bitcoin would be a handy replacement for Liberty Reserve. Bitcoin’s open-source cryptography model, which maintains records of every single transaction and fairly transparent, but Bitcoin is also Anonymous currency, that keep a person’s real identity separate from his or her digital address.

Since the US government has shown an interest in regulating Bitcoin and the exchanges that help it operate, it has become a less attractive proposition for criminals.

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